Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ambitious notion that is worth examining. At first glance, the comparison seems farfetched. The 19th century Prime Minister of Great Britain would appear to be an odd sort of fellow to find favor at the White House. Amid the close-cropped sobriety of the Haldemans and the Ehrlichmans, he would stand out like the dazzling Victorian dandy he was. His long hair coiling around his shoulders, his blue trousers paired with black and red stockings, his fingers festooned with rings, he enjoyed the reaction of people on the street as they fell back to let him by. To him this...
...contrast to the common notion that dervishes spin themselves into a delirious frenzy, they performed movements that were as carefully controlled as they were ritualistic, each of the dancers adopting his own speed, like so many planets turning on their axes. "It is a spiritual feeling," explains Dance Master Ahmet Bican Kasapoglu, "but we are in reality. We don't give ourselves over to unreality." After nearly half an hour, during which kettle drums drove the music to a hypnotic crescendo, the dervishes gradually wound down. Their arched skirts sank to their ankles, and they crossed their arms over...
...After all, the notion of repression was suggested to Freud by the political repression rampant in the rampant dynasty which Freud himself fought against," Laing noted...
Probably the toughest battle of all was over a single phrase. East Germany demanded full recognition as a wholly sovereign state. West Germany insisted on keeping alive, however tenuously, the notion of eventual reunification. Bahr therefore sought to include in the preamble a phrase mentioning "the German nation," or "two states of Germany," or "Germany as a whole." Finally, the negotiators sought refuge in obfuscation, agreeing on a reference to "existing differences of opinion including the national question...
...from the National Endowment of the Arts for the purchase of contemporary American photographs. Davis Pratt, Curator of Photography at the Fogg, has put together handsome exhibition of 20th century photographic masters and innovators. On view until December 31, in Galleries II and III, Contemporary American Photographs dispels the notion that the photographer is any more limited by his tools than the fine artist; for the camera, recording reality becomes old-fashioned, an 18th century idea, compared to the experimental techniques--photo etchings intaglio prints, Polaroid material employed by many of these 33 Americans on exhibit...